Professor - English/Division Chair
ekdavis@nic.edu
Primary Phone: (208) 769-7710
Division: English and Humanities
Department: English and Humanities
Location: Coeur d' Alene Campus
Building: Lee Kildow Hall (LKH)
Room: 204B
Education
Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Long Beach, English Education (Literature)
Master of Arts, California State University, Long Beach, English (Literacy Studies)
Biography:
Erin Davis has taught English at NIC since 2008, and currently serves as the chair of the English and Humanities Division. She received her BA in English education/literature and her MA in English literacy studies from California State University, Long Beach. In 2024, she earned her PhD in leadership studies from Gonzaga University.
Davis believes that becoming a college-level writer helps you become a more critical thinker, and finds that one of the perks of her job is helping her English 101 and English 102 students learn to clarify their ideas, support their positions, and consider multiple perspectives when they write. As NIC’s First-Year Experience faculty lead, she helps FYE students develop tools for academic, personal, and career success. When she teaches NIC’s Literature and Ideas course, she finds inspiration in those moments when her students find themselves unexpectedly moved, challenged, awakened, or entertained by a text that they read in her class. She also enjoys teaching Introduction to English Studies because it gives her the opportunity to work with new and potential English majors, who are some of her very favorite people.